Chapter 2-Meet the Mentor
(More Like Psychopathic Android)
We were escorted through a doorway that led to a large hallway. The hallway extended into two passageways. An orange one and a blue one. The eight of us stopped at the diverging fork.
"The males may proceed to the blue corridor and the females may proceed to the orange corridor." GLaDOS quickly announced. There after, the two hallways would hold four test subjects each. I followed the other girls isnide the orange hallway. We were greeted by a door that quickly entered us to a large room full of large furniture.
"Please make yourselves cozy." The artificial voice said. Everyone, except myself, took a seat on the large couch that appeared to be as white as the testing room walls. "There will be plenty of time to kill each other later, but as of this moment, bond with one another. It might be useful to know someone's darkest secret once you're seconds away from killing them... Have fun!" The computer voice had vanished as if it left the room to attend to the boys.
"Now that the robot hag has shut up, let me just say that 10281 is one hottie." the gritting the farthest from me had said. She appeared to be the oldest out of all of us. She had beautiful blonde hair that complimented her golden toned body and hazel eyes. For a moment I was jealous, but then I realized she's probably babied through the puzzles because of it. She seems like she'll fail at surviving. I gain a bit more of confidence and sit across from her on a white couch.
"Extreme hottie!", agrees the girl sitting to my left. She looked like the youngest among us. Her hair had cutesy curls and had altering brown and black hair.
"What about you?", the blonde asked the girl sitting to my right. The one that no one's paid attention to until now. "Do you think so too?", she asks.
The girl had remained silent and unresponsive. Tears were beginning to trace down her checks. Probably one of the three who understands the severity of these tasks the same way I do.
"Geez, what's wrong with you?" the blonde sneered, "Cheer up, sweetheart." Her attempt to appease the worried girl failed.
"Cheer up?!", I found myself yelling toward the blonde's direction, "In a few days we are about to enter some kind of twisted, awful, dirty equivalent to a human rat maze that none of us have ever experienced. How can she cheer up? Actually, how can you two be cheerful at all? We might die in there! Worse part might be us killing each other. I can't believe how shallow you two are, to just think about that stupid 10281!"
"You know you're right. The 3145 guy looks hotter." I saw as message was completely ignored. A staircase had been made by the floor panels next to the kitchen area.
"It's time for you ladies to get some rest. Your separate rooms await." GLaDOS announced.
The four of us climbed the stairs and we were met by doors with our names printed on to them. The blonde's name appeared to be 2013. The young one with curly hair walked into the door with the name 27036. The girl who I'd like to be best friends with had disappeared past the door with the name 31816. I vanished as well. Making my way inside the with my name on its door.
The next day I awoke to the sound of 2013 and 27036 arguing down in the kitchen area.
"I can't believe you ate the last pancake!" The younger one yelled.
"If you want one so badly, you should make yourself one.", responded the blonde.
"I don't know how to work a stove!" 27036 growled.
"That's not my problem." 2013 said while eating the fluffy bread right in front of the child. Then I noticed 31816 seated at the end of the dinner table alone. I walked toward her said to her good morning. I think she mumbled good morning back. I gave her a small smile but I wasn't sure she saw it with her gaze stuck to her bowl of cereal. I went back to the kitchen to try and fix myself a breakfast, but before I could, GLaDOS' voice boomed loudly.
"I hoped you've enjoyed the girl time because now is the time you must all be taken to your private pre-game training. There's a small chance you''ll die due to extreme excitement. I've seen it happen before. 2013 looks like her heart may explode at any second." There was a small pause. "Oh, well. Looks like I have to wait until the Portal Games to see you die." The voice gave a small sigh as she indicated us to a room with a door on each of its four sides. Each door with one of our names. I quickly entered my door. The room was small. It only contained a bed, a small table and a stand, holding my old foe and friend, the portal gun. I wrapped my hands across the familiar device. Pretty soon it was snug around my and and forearm. The tender moment with the gun was short as a passageway slid open in front of me. I walked into it and was met by a glowing white screen. Contestant 7.A was shown in black letters. As I continued to walk, I entered a large room of white pillars high above the ground.
There was no exit in sight. I stepped back as I began the usual test subject technique.
Aim. Shoot. Jump.